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語源

Blend of absolutely +‎ positively.

発音

• IPA: /ˌæbsəˈtɪvli/, /ˈæbsəˌtɪvli/

副詞

absotively (not comparable)

1. (informal, humorous or childish) Absolutely and positively.
   • 1920 September, “Style and Stability (advertisement)”, in The Rotarian, volume 17, number 3, page 159:

     That is one of the twelve reasons why Charlotte Diners are absotively the best little old dining chairs produced in this Land of the Free—and Prohibition has nothing to do with it.

   • 1925, Octavus Roy Cohen, Bigger and Blacker, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →LCCN, →OL:

     “I is sad; absotively mis'able. What you reckon kind of pitcher they is takin' down there?”

   • 1994, Joseph Heller, Closing Time, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL:

     “Absotively, Admiral Dewey?” “Posilutely, General Grant.”

   • 2017 April 4, Will Campos, Dez Dolly, Daniel Johnson & David Welch, “MatchMaker” (19:46 from the start), in Dimension 404‎, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Adam (Robert Buckley):

     “Damn it!” “I am so sorry. I'm such a klutz.” “What's your version number?” “It's, uh, it's Adam 5, ma'am. It won't happen again.” “Let's hope not.” “Absotively. Uh, absolutely. Of course.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:absitively.

使用する際の注意点

See absitively.

派生語

参考

• absitively posolutely